Shootings, stabbings keep S.D. police busy this morning

It was a busy early Saturday morning for police in San Diego as two men were shot and three were stabbed in apparently unrelated incidents.

A 32-year-old man was shot three times in the chest and shoulder while sitting in his car on Hasty Street near Thorn Street in Rolando Park about 3:15 a.m., police said.

The victim is expected to survive his wounds.

San Diego Police Sgt. Ray Battrick said the suspect, described only as a black male in his 20s with many tattoos on both arms, got out of a Lexus 4-door sedan, walked up to the other man’s vehicle and opened fire. He then drove off in the Lexus.

A second shooting took place in Tierrasanta when a 31-year-old man, angry with people he thought were being too loud in his home during a party, shot a 21-year-old guest shortly before 4 a.m.

Sgt. Battrick said the party’s host, who had been drinking, armed himself with a handgun after arguing with the guests. Two friends tried to wrestle the gun away from him but it went off, hitting the victim. The wound was not life threatening. The suspect was held on the ground until police arrived and was arrested.

About 90 minutes later in Loma Portal, one man was stabbed in the head during a fight inside an apartment on Rosecrans Street south of Midway Drive.

Battrick said 34-year-old Gene Stewart used a pocket knife to get inside the apartment and then argued with two men and a woman inside. He stabbed a 50-year-old man in the left side of his head, then ran off but was seen by officers by the Walgreens on Midway Drive.

Stewart ran inside the store and demanded drugs from the pharmacy, police said. He was arrested inside the store for assault with a deadly weapon and attempted robbery.

The victim of the stabbing is expected to survive.

Meanwhile, said San Diego police Sgt. Todd Sluss, earlier in the morning two men were dropped off at hospitals with stab wounds, apparently the result of unrelated altercations.

The first arrived just before 2 a.m. at Rady Children’s Hospital. The victim was drunk and uncooperative and was taken to another hospital where he is expected to recover.

About 35 minutes later another man was dropped off at Scripps Mercy Hospital suffering from a stab wound to his thigh. He too was uncooperative and will survive, police said.